Contributors to this special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly investigate the origin story of transgender studies in Europe. Paying special attention to post-Soviet and post-socialist nationalisms, the formation of the European Union and its funding schemes, different mobilities and patterns of migration, and language use within and between nation-states, the authors explore the institutionalization of transgender studies as European citizens and newcomers are faced with a resurgence of fascisms. Topics include the first trans protest in Italy, black life and trans study, trans health-care zines, southern trans masculinity, and teaching trans/gender studies during the rise of the global right. Contributors. Elia A.G. Arfini, Sebastian Felten, Jonah I. Garde, Rebecca Kahn, C. Libby, Z. Zane McNeill, Yv E. Nay, Claire Pamment, Nat Raha, Sy Simms, SA Smythe, Eliza Steinbock, Alyosxa Tudor, Tija Uhlig